\u201cAs far as my personal life is concerned, my answer is pretty simple,\u201d Leo said at the time. \u201cI got into this industry at a very young age. I felt incredibly compelled to do this. And the irony is that I was born and raised in Hollywood. People think: \u2018Oh, OK, just add water\u2019, right? But I tried to become an actor multiple times, and I got rejected.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd at 12 or 13 years old, one of those agents said: \u2018OK, we\u2019ll give you a shot.\u2019 Since then, it\u2019s felt like winning the lottery. And to be honest, I would have been happy doing any sort of acting jobs \u2013 commercials, television,\u201d he went on. \u201cI got the one opportunity doing This Boy\u2019s Life with Robert De Niro. I watched his work, realized the caliber of actor that he was, and said to myself: \u2018I will never squander this opportunity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAs far as my personal life is concerned, my answer is pretty simple,\u201d Leo said at the time.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2098,430,156,111,139,69,2100,60520,15228],"class_list":["post-190089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-bestofinternet-reddit","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-timely","tag-uk-celeb-team","tag-womens-content"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}